These barbaric spectacles of torture, pain, suffering and eventual death are completely LEGAL in SOUTH CAROLINA. Often these animal cruelty "events are sponsored by breed clubs, such as the American Kennel Club and the United Kennel Club".

I believe we are more of a compassionate nation than to allow such cruel atrocities such as this... please sign and share this petition.

It's should not acceptable for any sentient being to be subjected to such horrors. I do not know which is more disturbing, the fact that such cruelty is LEGAL or if knowing that although small, there are communities in American today which consider this a form of entertainment. The people who are taking part in this are sadistic murderers, terrorists.

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Bears are being inhumanely used for the blood sport of bear baiting. Confined, chained, and unable to defend themselves, the bears fend off up to 300 trained dogs as entertainment. Countries such as Russia, Pakistan, and even Canada call this entertainment. Unfortunately, bear baiting is also legal in the state of South Carolina.

Bears are captured for the competition and forced to endure immense pain before the fighting begins. Their teeth are broken, noses are pierced with nose rings, and they are declawed. Large groups gather to watch dogs torment the bears, sometimes to the death. The events are sponsored by breed clubs, such as the American Kennel Club and the United Kennel Club. These events are described by the sponsors as a training event for hunting dogs. This event is a sadistic spectator “sport” for those who enjoy watching a dog attack a bear.

Lonesome George

Every now and then George closes his eyes for a few centuries the stars stop for the occasion and the sun goes out, his night lit only by dream...

"Hello, big boy," she says, shell new and lustrous, green as the deep sea; and her eyes deep as the dark gems that glow deep where it roots...

George, lifting his nose skyward still seeing her behind his closed eyes moves forwardslow as lava oozing from the bottom of the sea

His scaled feet arch like trees first planted then pulled up from their roots...

"I'm coming," he says.

Written by, Steve Campbell

"Lonesome George" is the name given by biologists to the last surviving male Giant Galapagos Tortoise. There are no surviving females.

The entire Giant Galapagos Tortoise species was destroyed directly by humans. The tortoise's shells were used to make tourist trinkets. The shell is part of the tortoise's body (like turtles). Without their shell, they die much like a human having their skin removed (I imagine, equally as painful).

The animal was usually still alive when it's 'soft' body was cruelly cut out from it's shell. In countries like China, and the Island of Bali, this brutal and unethical practice of live tortoise/turtle slaughter continues.

George is approximately 90 years old. In 2008, great efforts were made to help George produce offspring by fertilizing eggs of a 'close' relative species. Sadly, the experiment failed.

George is the rarest known creature in the world and... the loneliest.